The meaning of the runes are mostly forgotten nowadays in Germany, although it was the alphabet of the Germanic peoples until they adopted the Latin alphabet and had an important impact on the religion of the Germanic tribes. Get a quick introduction throughh the article you can download above.

Georgian mythology is not yet researched very much in English-language scientific literature, and thus this paper tries to point out the major themes, social contexts, and ways of spreading folklore in a Caucasian context by making comparisions to the folk belief of the Abkhaz, Ossetians, Circassians, and Chechens.

During history, several forms of religion evolved. From animistic beliefs to shamanism to canonical religions. All these forms of religion are to be seen equal, though their evolutional stage shows that their has been a development from one stage to another. This paper shows a few characteristics on how to classify them and shows examples.